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Re: TASM for 6800 assembly

... I have also found that not all assemblers are equal. It s convenient to have an assembler in source form, so it can be modified to suit a particular bunch

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, Jun 23, 2013

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:28 AM, B Degnan <billdeg@...> wrote:
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> > Thank you very much. Now I understand. I thought TASM was the go-to
> > assembler for any processor, I see at least for 6800's it's simply easier
> > to use something more MIKBUG compatible, and now I understand why things
> > are the way they are. I only know the coding part, how to read the
> > instructions themselves.

I have also found that not all assemblers are equal. It's convenient to have an assembler in source form, so it can be modified to suit a particular bunch of code that's written for some particular assembler not available now.

has a section "Web links to related 6800" where I point to my version of an AS68 assembler in C, which I compiled for MS-DOS. "I took some time in Nov 2011, to revive William Colley's 6800 cross assembler A68..."